Description
Remote Senior Database Administrator
Welcome to Your Next Challenge
Imagine being at the heart of a global organization where data is the foundation for bold decision-making. This isn’t just another database job—it’s your stage to engineer resilience, reliability, and business breakthroughs, all from wherever you thrive best. If you believe that deep focus leads to transformative results and view every outage as a learning opportunity, this role will empower you to drive innovation across our digital landscape.
How You’ll Make an Impact
Data underpins every meaningful business action here. Your expertise keeps our infrastructure secure, agile, and ready for the next leap—so teams never have to worry about access, integrity, or scalability. By optimizing database architecture, you’ll ensure that every feature, launch, and transaction happens with zero friction. Your forward-thinking mindset will shape strategies for growth, performance, and security, while your real-time insights will help us serve thousands of users worldwide.
Key Contributions
- Lead the evolution of database ecosystems to guarantee high availability, disaster recovery, and seamless scalability.
- Champion automation for backup, monitoring, and tuning—freeing our engineers to focus on what matters most.
- Work side by side with experts from product, security, and engineering to architect seamless data workflows that enable every customer experience.
- Drive continuous improvement, using objective metrics and incident analysis to turn challenges into opportunities.
- Empower application developers by designing efficient, low-latency data flows and offering clear, actionable guidance.
- Your expertise will help protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with various regulatory frameworks, including GDPR and HIPAA.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means more than “keeping the lights on.” You’ll nurture a resilient environment where systems self-heal, teams innovate without fear, and every business decision is grounded in trusted data. Whether you’re scaling up during a high-traffic launch or fine-tuning replication for seamless global operations, your influence will be visible across the business. Your ability to translate complex database topics—whether on calls or through documentation—will empower both technical and non-technical colleagues.
Tools & Technologies
Our stack is constantly evolving, but you’ll work hands-on with leading platforms like PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and cloud-native solutions (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL). You’ll wield DevOps tools to script automation, orchestrate deployments, and ensure the highest data integrity. Experience with monitoring platforms (like Datadog or Prometheus) and scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell will serve you well. If there’s a better tool for the job, your voice shapes our toolkit.
Essential Experience & Skills
- Years spent solving complex data challenges in distributed, high-growth environments.
- You simplify complex concepts—whether you’re coaching peers on Slack or presenting best practices during remote workshops.
- Mastery of database performance tuning, high-availability architecture, and disaster recovery planning.
- Deep familiarity with compliance standards (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA), encryption methods, and secure data design.
- You’re proactive: tracking emerging threats, identifying bottlenecks before they escalate, and continually enhancing uptime.
- You move quickly but always carve out time to focus on what matters most—no busy work, no impact.
Collaboration & Growth
Expect to partner with engineers, product managers, and support teams to build systems users depend on every day. You’ll coach others on best practices, foster a culture of learning, and help create a truly distributed team where knowledge sharing is second nature. Here, your curiosity isn’t just encouraged—it’s required. There’s room to experiment, mentor, and take your technical leadership to the next level.
Work Environment
Remote means freedom: design your workspace, set your own deep-work hours, and join a team that respects balance. You’ll utilize remote collaboration tools—such as Zoom, Notion, and Slack—to build connections and keep projects moving forward. We invest in your growth with training, conferences, and a culture that values progress over perfection. Your contributions are recognized, your ideas valued, and your voice heard.
Compensation
For this role, you’ll earn an annual salary of $118,554—with room for further rewards based on your impact and growth. Competitive benefits and a supportive, forward-thinking work culture make this more than just a job.
Ready to Leave Your Mark?
If your passion for database engineering is matched only by your drive to help teams succeed—no matter where you’re based—we want to connect. Let’s build something reliable, secure, and meaningful together. If you’re ready to shape the future of data-driven innovation, your journey starts here.